He told fellow lawmakers the ability to view taped meetings is a good tool for looking into how governments operate. Barnes said he learned this while researching votes by other boards on the controversial proposal for storing liquefied petroleum gas in depleted salt caverns in the Town of Reading.

"It's easier to research what goes on in these meetings and who says what," Barnes said.

Legislature Chairman Dennis Fagan, R-Tyrone, said the idea would be discussed by the Management and Finance Committee, which will be working on the 2015 budget. County Administrator Timothy O'Hearn said he would provide the committee with cost information.

Opponents of the gas storage plan spoke at the start the meeting, reiterating their disagreement with the legislature's June vote asking the state to approve the project. They cited frustration with county lawmakers and distrust of lawmakers' commitment to representing the interests of Schuyler County residents.

The only "no" votes of the evening came when legislators considered a request from the Department of Social Services to hire a Russian translator to work with some new clients.

Legislators James Howell, R-Montour Falls, and Van Harp, R-Hector, voted against the hiring, which was approved by the majority.

Legislator Thomas Gifford, R-Montour Falls, voted in favor of hiring the translator, but said the cost, $125 per hour, was an example of an expense imposed on county taxpayers by state and federal mandates.

In other business, John King of Montour Falls, president of the Watkins-Montour Rotary Club, told legislators Oct. 24 is World Polio Awareness Day. He said the Rotary Club will be publicizing the work of the local club and Rotary International to combat polio.

He said Rotary's involvement in the effort to eradicate polio by immunizing the world's children is the largest ever private-public humanitarian undertaking. It began in 1979. With the exception of three countries – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan – the world is now considered to be 99 percent polio-free.